Funded by the Atlantic Philantropies and supported by the Department of Health, Creating Excellence in Dementia Care: A Research Reivew for Ireland’s National Dementia Stratergy presents key findings emerging from a research review conducted to inform the development of Ireland’s future National Dementia Strategy.
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Funded by the Atlantic Philantropies and supported by the Department of Health, Creating Excellence in Dementia Care: A Research Reivew for Ireland’s National Dementia Stratergy presents key findings emerging from a research review conducted to inform the development of Ireland’s future National Dementia Strategy.
DARES is a three-year mixed methods project funded by the Health Research Board which aims to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a structured educational reminiscence programme for staff. Using a cluster randomized trial it aims to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the reminiscence-based programme on levels of agitation exhibited by residents with dementia and on staff attitude towards residents with dementia and perceived care burden.
Deciphering ALS Heterogeneity: A Precision Medicine Approach to Network-based Biomarker Development.
Project Aim(s):
(i) To continue to characterise the clinical subphenotypes of ALS and to further elucidate the observed clinical and genetic overlap between ALS and neuropsychiatric disorders by detailed study of endophenotypes in first and second degree relatives.
(ii) To identify heterogeneous disease subcohorts based on genomic signatures, including those that overlap between ALS and neuropsychiatric illness.
Project Aim(s):
(i) Using existing data, to characterize the impact of ALS stage, cognitive and behavioural effects in ALS on caregiver burden, and to ascertain the unmet psychological and psychosocial needs of caregivers.
(ii) To provide new data focussing on subjective and objective aspects of caregiver burden that can inform psychologically tailored interventions that enable self-management of carer burden.
Dementia Elevator is an education and empowerment programme developed by DCU and the HSE (with the support of Atlantic Philanthropies) to help individuals, communities and health professionals to engage appropriately with people with dementia. Among its objectives are dementia awareness training and the delivery of training/information programmes to the general public, health professionals, individuals and family caregivers.
Project Aim(s): To explore the attitudes of Irish and Swedish General Practitioners (GPs) to the diagnosis and disclosure of dementia to patients; to investigate GP under-graduate/post-graduate training in dementia; to examine the post-diagnostic support services available to GPs in both countries and to investigate the extent to which dementia is perceived as stigmatising.
To determine the evidence for diet modification - Specifically, thickening fluids to prevent aspiration in people with dementia and swallowing difficulties.